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Featuring Hugh Harbert

Anits Lecies Alan Mowbray

Buster Keaton

Joyce Compton Richard Cromwali Billy Gilbert

Margaret Hamilto

Diane Fisher Charles Jadets RKO RADIO PICTURE

Produced by HAROLD & PRANKUN Quarted by EDWARD CHINE Screen play by Elbert Frankin

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Charlie Chaplin

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The Great DICTATOR

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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 22, 1941.

CONSPICUOUS VALOUR

OF INDIAN TROOPS

AT AMBA ALAGI

MANY DEEDS OF conspicuous valour performed by Indian troops during the last phase of the operations leading to the capitu- lation of Amba Alagi are described in a cable received in Simla yesterday by the Indian Army's official eye-witness,

After one of our companies had captured a position it was found impossible to hold it unless enemy machine-guns, firing at almost point-blank range, were silenced.

along a narrow

ridge,

The 200-yard approach to the gun lay and the company commander called for two volunteers, where- upon a naik and a sepoy of the Bangash tribe from the Kohut district, Immediately stepped for- ward.

They took the machine-gun post and held it for two hours until they were killed.

During a charge, carried out under heavy fire against a strong enemy position, a sepoy from the Ferozepur district was separated from the rest of his section in thick mist.

He was found lying dead beside Tour Italians he had killed with the bayonet, which was still sticking in the body of a ffth.

Naik Hero

A naik saved several lives, both of our own troops and Italian prisoners, when the pin hand-grenade accidentally loosen-

ed.

BLAME TAKEN BY FIANCEE

A young policeman, Cyril James Golding, Section House, Richmond Police-station, was remanded on hail for a week at Richmond charged with breaking and enter- ing a house and stealing articles valued at £11.

It was stated that Golding was surprised in the house by pulice- men,

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THREE HUNDRED

ALIENS ROUNDED UP

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"

The Department of Justice in Washington revealed

yesterday

that the total number of aliens arrested dur- ing the recent round- up amount to about 300 men,

Most of these aliens are sea-men, it was stated.

Interna- tional News Service.

GIRL LIBELLED BY BOY

A boy of 16 was remanded for

week

ut Southend Juvenile Court after pleading guilty to said that he was visited by Miss her mother.

Mr. Calvert Smith, defending, cerning a girl of 15 in a letter to publishing a defamatory libel con-

Dunlop, Golding's of a

fiancee, thut It was stated that the girl at- morning. She informed him that tended everything that hud

place been stolen where he was employed, and as of amusement

whole of the statements made by being taken home by another boy. was stolen by her, and that the, he liked her he was jealous of her Gulding were for the purpose of He wrote a distressing type protecting her.

letter to her mother and made allegations against the girl which were untrue.

He seized the grenade, scram- bled five yards over rocks and hurled it into a ravine, where It! exploded harmlessly. Reuter.

RASCHID ALI CONDEMNED

Jirgah

A fully representative (tribal conference) has presented an address to the Governor of the Northwest Frontier Province, expressing loyalty to the British Government

and condemning Rashid Ali's intrigues with Germans endangering the safety of the Muslim countries like Tur- key, Syria and Egypt.

the

It reaffirmed the identity of the interests of Islam and the British Government and assured that the

Jirgah would do nothing to em- barrass the Government when it

was engaged in a life and death struggle with the forces of Nazi- ism and Fascism.

Her explanation of Golding's presence at the house was that he could not bring himself to give information against her, and went to replace the things.

a

of

was dared to write the letter by The boy told the court that he other boys and did not know the meaning of the words he used,

ECONOMIC ACCORD REACHED WITH FREE FRANCE

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT and General de Gaulle's Council of Defence have just concluded an economic agreement under which the British Gov- ernment undertake to purchase the total output of palm kernels, ground nuts and beniseed from French Equatorial Africa.

They also undertake to purchase a considerable The Governor, replying, stress-proportion of the French Equatorial Africa coffee ed the sympathy of the British crop and a very large quantity of timber, and to tries, and advised the Jirgah not ensure the sale of the whole of the commercially to be misled by false propaganda saleable cotton crop up to 20,000 tons. from enemy sources.--Reuter.

Government for the Muslim coun-

'GIVE WIVES LEAVE, TOO'

Questions about husbands and wives called up for war service are to be asked in the House of 'Commons.

Mr. A. Woodburn (Lab., Clack- mannan) is to ask the Home Sec- retary if wives of men on com- pulsory service who are called up will be able to get leave at the same time as their husbands.

Mr. Woodburn will also ask' the Home Secretary what steps are being taken to protect the homes of soldiers whose wives are called up and if he will give an assurance that their homes "will not be commandeered and abused by careless people,

Mrs. Tato (Con. Frome) is to ask the Chancellor of the Ex~{ cheyuci whether, during the war.

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The agreement will also ensure, which they have extended to any certain supplies particularly cot-French overseas territories rally- ton, oil seeds and timber, which ing to the Free French movement Britain can readily absorb and and the purpose of the agreement which therefore are of consider- is not so much to inaugurate able direct benefit to the UK. new era of collaboration as war effort.

embody the mutual benefits which A similar agreement relating this cooperation is already achiev- to the French Cameroons was ing. concluded towards the end of The British Government January last. The present agree- dertake to make all purchases in ment similarly dates from Octo- pounds sterling converted at the ber 1, 1940 to September 30, 1941, official rate of 176.625 francs

As in the case of the French the pound, and to place such ster!-- Cameroons, the British Govern- ing at the disposal of the authori- ment are already

Implementing ties of French Equatorial Africa. the pledges of economic assistance British Wireless.

un-

to

LEE THEATRE

DAILY AT 2.30, 545, 720 & 9.30° P. M.

he will assess the carnings of Showing TO-DAY: A Chinese Picture in Mandarin

women on work of national im

portance, separately from those of their husbands for Income tax purposes

RE "FLOTSAM"